MASS EFFECT ISN'T DEAD [BioFan Video]

How long is a long wait? Will EA have the patience to wait for a long time? Even with a long wait, there's no guarantee the game will rake in the money.

Despite the vocal few on here, EA should know going backwards won't solve a damn thing.

Andromeda would be going backwards...

And going backwards again isn't going to help. To be honest I'm not sure EA thought that will be still some bitter over the endings and of course the lack of polish over ME: A doesn't help.

No it wouldn't. Going back to the Milky Way for a prequel for some spin off or canonzing an ending would be going backwards. EA/Bioware should take what they've learned from ME: A and apply it to a possible sequel.

and the MWG is similarly untenable as a setting for much the same reason.

Agree here. Going back can't be an option, but staying in the current Andromeda timeline isn't either (too many problems.) 

I never really thought of that.

Wait, if you just go back to the MW and disappear through the MU relay, what's the difference between that and staying in Andromeda really? You are still cut off from the rest of the MW, so no Omega, Citadel, Illium, Tuchanka, etc. Plus, to get a good enough diversity of alien species to go along on the journey, you basically need another Andromeda Initiative, which will seem like a super-cheap cop-out. "Oh yeah, we happen to have another group of Krogan, Asari, Turian, Salarian, Human, Drell, Batarian, Hanar, Quarian, etc that wanted to explore something, so they went through the Mu relay instead of going to Andromeda. It's really different, guys!"

It's just way too similar. You'd have basically the same thing, those races trying to survive in a hostel environment, except you wouldn't have the cool setup of the Jaardan, the Remnant, Kett, Angara, etc. You'd be at square one again, whereas if you just take whatever you might have done through the Mu relay, but instead do it in Andromeda (since they've only explored a small amount of one cluster) then you get that new stuff plus the foundation you've already built.

Also, I don't see why you need to go 100 or 1000 years into the future. In the 1 year since the AI got to Andromeda they already set up some outposts, had smallish cities made, and were interacting with native cultures. Just going 5 years in the future means you can use some of the same cast and grow on their stories, and still have a mix of dealing with exploring and settling, as well as city hubs and those kinds of politics and intrigue. It's a win-win.

Going back to the Milky Way just to do the AI, but through a random relay would so severely piss off those who liked Andromeda AND those who wanted to go back to the MW because of all the cool MW stuff they remembered from the OT that it would be a nightmare.

The only real viable way to go back to the MW I believe is to do what Deus Ex did and start ME4 right before Shep goes up the beam. Have something else happen, find another way to defeat the Reapers without the Star-child stuff, and go from there. I personally don't like that idea, but I think that's the only real way to get back to the MW. Humanity hadn't been around long enough for there to be any significant stories to tell before Shep that would still seem like the player had a major impact on anything, and doing the First Contact War would mean changing with that OT said that "War" was, which was basically a few skirmishes. Anything else means removing the player character too far from the Milky Way core (citadel, Omega, Reapers, Collectors, Geth, etc) that it's meaningless to make the effort to go back.

No, no, BioFan, just... Don't. That's not what the argument was at all. What MajesticJazz is saying was taken completely out of context and was not about people making YouTube videos, but instead was about people on the forum linking videos in posts as a rebuttal to arguments other posters had said without giving context or stating what the video was about or actually just typing out some of the points made by the video, instead forcing those who where involved to sit through 20 minutes videos to try to find the few sentences that were pertinent to the actual debate.

Nothing to do with YouTube creators and their content.

Yeah.  I mean, they can be helpful in certain circumstances where someone actually visually shows something that is difficult to describe or just has a much better argument than the poster could come up with themselves, but in those instances they should always:

1.  Give a time-stamp for where the "evidence" pertinent to the argument is in the video.
2.  Give a description of what the person in the video is going to be talking about and type out some of their points.
3.  Explain why the video is being used to agree with or refute an argument made by another poster.

Just being like "Oh, you think MEA's story was good?  Here's a video I found.  youtube.com/link/thatstupidsmudguy"  is poor posting, poor debating, and poor communicating.  

This, they would be stupid to stay in Andromeda after how much of a disaster it was.